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Sandra Oh, who was born in Canada to parents who emigrated from South Korea, expressed her gratitude to organisers and those in attendance for the "opportunity to stand together and feel each other"

Asian #InspirAsian #StopAsianHate

The first woman of color and the first woman of Asian descent to earn BEST DIRECTOR at The Academy Awards for the movie "NOMADLAND", which also took home BEST PICTURE. Congrats Chloé Zhao!

Asian #InspirAsian #RepresentAsian

Support Sustainably Sourced Cotton! Sustainable sourcing refers to how a cotton crop is grown and harvested. The practice of sustainable sourcing takes into account environmental, social, economic, and ethical factors to create a responsible product from seed to sale. Here are five ways to tell if cotton farms are growing and harvesting their crops in a sustainable manner:

They practice water conservation, produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, increase soil preservation with "No-tillage" farming practices, do not use forced labor for planting or harvesting and provide transparency into supply chain!

Learn more

#SupportSustainability #SDG #JustGoForIt

The right to access the internet is a right to freedom and connection. It enables us to develop relations, express opinions and perform tasks online. But does everyone hold this #right? With the #Covid19 pandemic outbreak, education shifted to online platforms, which created enormous challenges for students in developing countries. The lack of reliable #access to the internet resulted in withdrawal and unfortunate incidents such as suicide among students.

Read more about young Indian students who were uncertain about their digital future and awaiting schools reopening.

#DotAsiaShoutOuts - PopBox Asia offers integrated logistic services with their automated parcel PopBox locker that allows users to select their preferred locations to pick up their packages.

www.popbox.asia

Asian #InspirAsian

APrIGF 2021 Hybrid - Kathmandu will be held on 27-30 September in a HYBRID format, combining physical attendance in Kathmandu, Nepal, and at various local hubs, as well as online participation. With Nepal as the official host, this provides a physical venue for people in the region to travel to Kathmandu and to other areas where local hubs are available, while others can also participate virtually. The overarching theme this year is "Towards an Inclusive, Sustainable and Trusted Internet". Visit http://aprigf.asia for details and register now!

Dear DotAsia Community

Many thanks to those who participated as candidates for our Board election. From this activity we were fortunate to get four new members and a former member, to contribute to the Board's role of governance and fiscal responsibility of the DotAsia Organisation. Many thanks too, to the staff for their support of the Election Committee who guided the operations of the Board elections.

I'd like to commend and acknowledge this team of friends of DotAsia - Kuo Wei Wu of Taiwan (.tw), Cheryl Langdon-Orr from Australia (.au) and Andrew Molivurae from Vanuatu (.vu) for their ongoing commitment and support through the whole election process.

We welcome our new members on the Board: Co-sponsor rep, Kashif Adeel who was nominated by former Board member, Tommy Matsumoto; and Sponsor reps - Ellen Strickland from InternetNZ, Andi Budimansyah from the Indonesian IT Federation; Santanu Acharya from NIXI; and Joel Disini, from DotPH. We would also like to thank Emani Lui from Niue and Ali AlMeshal for participating in an election and hope they will consider another attempt in later elections. But, welcome to our new Board members. Ellen and Santanu have already taken on roles as Chairs of two of our subcommittees - Community Projects and Finance respectively and have already demonstrated their leadership skills in these roles.

We look forward to two years of commitment to the vision and mission of the DotAsia Organisation by all our new Board members. .


Maureen Hilyard
Chair, DotAsia Board